Liverpool City Council - markets

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Markets

Liverpool City Council operates a number of retail markets across the city through its joint venture partner, Geraud Markets Liverpool Ltd(GMLL).

There are two permanent retail markets and five casual retail markets.  The new Parklands Market opened in Speke District Centre on Wednesday 13 February 2008. Find out more. 

There are also three Farmers Markets.  One operates on the second Saturday in each month in Woolton Village; the next on the third Sunday of each month in Hope Street, and the other every fourth Saturday in each month in Lark Lane.

GMLL are currently looking to identify new locations for its City Centre Farmers Market, formerly held on the Monument Place site.

The city's Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable & Flower Market is based in Edge Lane.  This market is within easy reach of the M62 motorway (which links with the M6) and has plenty of vehicle parking space.  The market is open between 4.00am and 1.00pm, Monday to Saturday (closes 9.00am on Saturdays). 

Market Rights

The Council reminds and gives notice to all persons of the existence of its sole and exclusive right to hold a market and fair in the City of Liverpool and within the common law distance of 6 2/3 miles from the city boundary or the nearest market as the case may be which it and its predecessors has enjoyed at diverse times for upwards of 250 years and pursuant to all or any of the following; (a) the conveyancing title (b) the charters of King John and Queen Anne  (c) presumed lost grant  (d) S.202 of the Liverpool Corporation Act 1921 and any other enabling statute and the Food Act 1984.

Broadly, the City Council is entitled to the sole and exclusive right to markets and fairs in the City and up to 6 2/3 miles from beyond its boundaries.  This statement is supported by;

(a) Charters granted by (i) King John 1207  (ii) Queen Anne 1709 an additional market day of Wednesday added to the market day of Saturday; (b) doctrine of presumed grant; e.g. the known existence of the Corporation Markets in Tudor times; (c) A local statute passed in the reign of King George III in 1786 giving the right to appropriate parts of public streets for market places; (d) Liverpool Corporation Act 1921 - S.202 a section which provides the markets undertaking exists and as it is used and enjoyed by the Corporation at the commencement of that Act shall be and continue to be held and enjoyed by the Corporation subject to the provisions of that Act; (e) Establishment of certain markets under other statutes e.g. Toxteth Market under the Food and Drugs Act 1955 (now re-enacted as the Food Act 1984 Section 50); and (f) The Conveyance title, when the City Council acquired in 1777 the freehold reversion in the City of Liverpool and the rights to market fairs and all stallage and tolls. 

Contact us

If you need to know more about static stalls and market licenses, please contact GMLL on 0151 233 2165.

Market Timetable